The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1887-11-09

that one, and wishing this one damage,
and wishing some one else calamity, and
We ourselves needing forgiveness for ton
thousand times ten thousand obliquities OF
heart and life When our last hour
comes, we want it to find US all right
Hardly any thing affects me so much in
the uncovering Of ancient Pompeii as
the account Of the soldier who,
after the city had for many con-
turtles been covered with the ashes and
scori@ Of Vesuvius, was found standingin
his place on guard, hand on spear and hel.
met ON head. Others fed at the awful
encouragement, but the explorer, seven
teen hundred years after, found the body
Of that brave fellow in right position
And it will be grand thing If, when our
last moment, comes we are found in right
position toward the world, as well as ia
right position toward God, on guard and
unaffrighted by the ashes from the noun.
tain Of death. do not suppose am any
more of a coward than most people, but
declare to you that I would not dare to
sleep tonight If there we're any being in
all the earth with whom would not gladly
shake hands, lest, during the night hours,
my spirit dismissed to other realms,
should because Of my unforgiving spirit,
be denied divine forgiveness.
Again: We ought not to allow the pass
age OF the sunset hour before tho dismis-
sal Of all our affronts, because we may as
sociate the sublimest action Of the soul
with the sublimest spectacle in nature. 1t
is most delightsome thing to have our
personal experiences allied with certain
objects. There is O tree or river bank
| where God first answered your prayer.
You will never pass that place or think
Of that place without thinking of the glo-
| riOus communion. There was some gate,
| or some room, or some garden walk,
where you were affianced with the compan-
ion who has been your chief joy in life.
You never speak Of that place but with
| smile. Some Of you have pleasant men,
cries connected with the evening star, or
the moon in its first quarter, or with the
| sunrise, because you saw 1t just as you
were arriving at harbor after atcmpestuous
voyage. Forever, and forever, o nearer,
associate the sunset with your magnani-
nous, out-and-out unlimited renunciation
Of all hatreds and forgiveness Of all foes.
admit it is the most difficult Of all graces
to practice, and at the start you may
| make complete failure, but keep
on in the attempt to practice it.
Shakespeare wrote ten plays before
he reached Hamlet" and seventeen
plays before he reached "Merchant Of Ven
ice," and twenty-eight plays before he
reached Macbeth" And gradually you
| will come from the easier graces to the
most difficult. Besides that, it is not q
matter Of personal determination so much
as the laying hold of the almighty arm Of
| God, who will help US to do anything we
ought to do. Remember that in all per-
sonal controversies the one least to blame
will have to take the first step toward pa
ci6cation, il it is ever effective. The con-
test between Eschines and Aristippus re-
sounds through history, but Arts
| lupus, who was least to blame,
went to Eschines and said: "Shall
we not agree to be friends before we make
ourselves the laughing stock Of the whole
! countryl" And Eschines said: "Thou art
/ far better man than !, for began the
quarrel, but thou hast been the first in
healing the breach" and they were always
friends afterward. So let the one of you
that is least to blame take the first step
toward Cancellation. The one most in the
wrong will never take it. Oh, it make.
one feel splendidly to be able by Gods
help to practice unlimited forgiveness
It improves ones body AID
soul 1t will make you measure
three or four more inches around the
chest and improve your respiration so that
you can take deeper and longer breath.
1t improves the countenance by scattering
the gloom and Frightening the forehead,
and loosening the pinched look about the
like God himself. He is omnipotcnce, and
we can not copy that. He is Independent
of all the universe, and we can not copy
that. He is creative, and we can not
copy that He is omnipresent, and
we can not copy that; but He
forgives with broad sweep all
faults, and all neglects, and all insults,
and all wrong-doing, and in that we may
copy Him with mighty success. Goharness
| budG ouUlluuC uCtioh Va yOut oOuA w al hu'
tumnal sunset, the hour when the gate OF
Heaven opens to let the day pass into the
eternities and some of the glories escape
this way through the brief opening. We
talk about the Italian sunsets,
sunset amid the Apprentices, and sun
set amid the Cordilleras; but
will tell you how you may see . grandel
sunset than any mere lover of nature
ever beheld. That is by flinging into it al
your hatreds and animosities, and le
the horses Of fire trample them, and thu
chariots of fire roll over them, and thu
spearmen Of fro stab them, and the beacl
Of fire consume them, and the pillows o
fire overwhelm them. The sublimest thin,
God does is the sunset the sublimest thinl
you can do is forgiveness. Along the glow
ing banks of this coming eventide let tn,
, divine and the human be concurrent.
Again: We should not let the sun 2,
down on our wrath, because it is of it'll,
, Importance what the world says Of you o.
does to you when you have the affluen
, God of the sunset as your provider and de
| fender. People talk as though it were
, fixed spectacle of nature and always tn
, same. But no one ever saw two sunset
, alike, and If the world has existed 81,
: thousand years there have been about 9
, 10000 sunsets, each Of them as distinc
t from all other pictures in the gallery o
3 the sky as Titian's Last Supper" r ubens
!. "Desccnt from the Cross" Raphael
{ .Transfiguration" and Michael Angelo
, ''Last Judgment" are distinct from cac
, other. II that God Of such infinite re